folgo

folgo

Galician

Etymology

14th century. A back formation from Latin follicare (“to blow, breathe”). Cognate with Portuguese fôlego.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfɔlɣo̝/

Noun

folgo m (plural folgos)

1. (also in the plural) breath

   Synonyms: alento, respiración

   • c1350, Kelvin M. Parker (ed.), Historia Troyana. Santiago: Instituto "Padre Sarmiento", page 288:

     Et esmoresçeu en tal maneyra que pouco nẽ moyto nõ suspiraua nẽ saya d'ela folgo.

     And she passed out in such a way that, neither much nor little, she didn't sigh or breathe

2. (also in the plural) stamina

   Vai ti, que eu xa non teño folgos para seguir!

   You go! I have no stamina left to keep going!

   Synonyms: alento, ánimo, azo, forza, relinca

3. life

   O gato ten sete folgos

   Cats have seven lives

Related terms

• fol
• folgar

References

• “folgo” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
• “folgo” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
• “folgo” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
• “folgo” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “folgo” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

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Portuguese

Verb

folgo

1. first-person singular (eu) present indicative of folgar